The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 275, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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March 7.—Okiaho-
Generall
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VOLUME XXII
WEDNESDAY MORNING
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA. MARCH 8, 1911 EIGHT PAGES
WEDNESDAY MORNING
NUMBER 277
imirm
THE DELEGATES
ARE GATHERING
State Sunday School Convention
Opens With a Large
Attendancf.
President Tai't Accepts Resigna-
tion Tendered January
Nineteenth
END IIP STRIKE
IS IN MIME
Oklahoma City Street Railway
Lines Are Getting
Rusty
BIG PARADE WEDNESDAY SUCCEEDED BY FISHER
Delegates and Bible School Pupils
Will March the Streets vf
Guthrie—Mineral Wells Pop-
ular Place for Visitors
The church was filled for the open
ing session Tuesday evening and i
great general introduction and prelim
lnary love feast ensued. Mayor Far-
quharson, President J. J. O'Rourke, of
the Chamber of Commerce and Rev. 1
<r Wright of the United Presbyterian
church, president of the Guthrie Min
isterial alliance, all spoke words o
welcome to the city's visitor.". Presi
dent E. W. Stryker of the State Sun-
day School association, was here fnmi
'▼inita, and responded and was fol
lJwed by words of greeting by i ll o
the Sunday school specialists who an
here for the meeting.
Secretary Nicholls says that this i:
the first time he can remember whti
all of the guests of the convention
were present at the opening session
The following seven are on the pro-
gram, and they are all here already:
.1. Shreve Durham, Chicago; W A
fcrown, Chicago; Prof. M. A. Honline,
Dayton. Ohio; R. P. Shepherd,
I/mis; \V. H. Wiggins, Dallas; Mis. H.
M. I.eyda, Chicago, and Miss Elizabeth
Kilpatrick, Cornith, Miss,
Prof. E. O. Kxcell and his accomp-
anist, Prof. Alvin Roper, r f Chicago,
are in charge of the music arid this
feature alone is drawing large num-
bers. In addition to the singing, which
was beautiful and inspiring,
Roper favored the convention with an
Instrumental selection that showed
him to be a genius along musical
lines.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of
"five hundred delegates had arrived in
Guthrie when the State Sunday School
convention opened at the First Metho-
dist church Tuesday night and from
appearances the full exoctationof fif-
teen hundred will be reached befcre
the convention closes. A linos- all of
the local automobiles w we pressed
into service and the delegates w« re
taken directly from the train to the
Methodist church where. Secretary
Nicholls now has his headquarter?
Many of the Guthrie me; <jnant ~ had
decorated Monday night and Tiies i.n
morning and it is expected that <v«r.
business house along Oklahoma av. mi.
and Harrison avenue will have bum
ing and penants streaming hy I 1 r.
Wednesday afternoon, when th«> big
show feature of the convention takes
place, for plans have been completed
for the big Sunday School convention
parade for Wednesday afternoon The
order of the march will l e as follows.
First: the Guthrie bind, follow d bj
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The President Is Positive He Is
to Be Made Object of Attack
by Those Who Have Assailed
Retiring Official
STATE MAY OPERATE ROAxJ
Officials of Company Insist that
With Protection They Could
Operate While Union and City j
Officers Deny Statement
WASHINGTON', March 7. Ri. hard
A. Ballingcr's resignation as secretary
of the interior was announced from
the white house today.
The president immediately announc-
ed he had appointed Walter L. fisher,
a Chicago lawyer, to suecced IJallin-!
j IllUl
gcr' . I tie-
It was stated that Secretary 1'al*!,..
linger tendered iiis resignation Janu-
ary 11*, but at th« president's request
it was withheld until the adjourn
ment of congress. Yesterday Hal lin-
ger wrote a second formal letter « r
resignation and it was accepted to-
day.
President's Letter
Today President Taft in a letter
formally acc< ptcd the resignation.
Taft's letter accepting Rallingcr res-
ignation says:
"I have had the fullest opportunity
to know your standards of service to
the government and the public, to
y railway of-
L-ars would be
attempt was
(CONTINUED ON PACE TWO)
A04IN UN WHEELS
Despite Oklahoma C
ficiils statements that
run Tuesday, but one
made to r.tarf service. At tiie car
barn a crew started from the shed
jwilh a ear \ crowd of a hundred or
un on men who had camped near
barns all night quietly blocked the
1,,;" K- 1 ' ** car was returned to its
>tall a'i"i it had moved but a lew-
feet.
A guard f union men remained at
the burns all day Tuesday.
I he act to annul the charter and
fj-anehise of the Oklahoma railway
company on the grounds that the
company is failing in its duty tu tin?
public and is a menace to the welfare
nnd safety of citizens, which was
drafted Monday, was presented to the
•state leyisature Tuesday. Represen-
tatives Peeblv and Champion brought
the measure before the house and
Senator Colville introduced the act in
the senate
Prays for Settlement
('ha plain Tucker of the senate
prayed Pins-day that there may be a
I peac
dy —\
Deceived Into Believing
She Was Married and Then
Deserted Young Girl Shoots
to Kill and Is Not So
IBATTLESHIPS
Ml C0SS1
Foreign Powers Demand Full
Protection Be Given
Subjects
REPUBLIC -S TOTTERING
East and West Shores Will Be
Guarded by Cruisers AU
Steaming Toward Zone of Re-
bellion
I rry
.acini settlement uf ti
Oklahoma Representatives Pass ^i!
to Third Reading Bill to Locate '
at Shawnee Started as Joke
their
third
Htat
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok la... Mi
Shawnee and Pott, county mem
the legislature were serious ii
spousal of a bill advanced t<
ending in the house Tuesday
ing, locating the permanent
apltal at Shawnee. It is doubtful If
the bill will ever go t" Governor
but its consideration by the
house discussed it was an indication
that the state offh era nre far from
satisfied with their treatment by
Xtlahoma City.
Representative Rarrett follow «d up
tlip bill with a joint resolution, an
nulling and rescinding the pending
ntracts between Oklahoma City and
the state on the ground that the form-
had utterly failed to live up to the
eements.
'he house took the Peters bill, a
joke measure locating the capitol at
whuska and amended it to read
awnee An appropriation of $i
•.non is carried and the Rarrett res
olution requires Shawnee to put up a
similar amount, for the capitol build
Ing. The expense of removal and free
rents are also required of Shawnee.
Senator Eggerman of Shawnee is
chairman C r the senate public build-
ings committee, would doubtless re-
port the bill favorably if it should
house finallv.
Beautiful Nurse Who Is Thought
to Have Committed Many Murders
NEW York, Mar 7.—Because she
accused <liuseppe Orsini of having de-
ceived her Into thinking that he had
married her. then flounting her love
and changing all the happiness and
brightness of her life into hopeless sor-
row by taking another woman for his
wife, it has developed w«g the reason
Maria Abagniale shot him four times
II in ratruiuf « iH8 h° was rf*turn,ng t«) his horn-. Then
tu,;,<iui...'.i un.".'..' Ir1"- "ri," l,"m" "> *T,'rr- Hn'1
Ins a. r lM. tu.- S.„,„r Shartel ! |,"l"'*-r"on ' n,erP'' «>"• apartment
'Hit tl,„ Cit, had (ailed t„ provide |£|d? h8P 8he sm,lod sadly and
pioper protection for the company, .... , , . , ,
and I hat it wn.< due to lack of pro ^ s 11 ^h.v shouldn't I
teetion that ear service hud been dls- ' '• ^°',P he dies. He did worse
continued. The resolution also con
d< Mined statements from officials <
railway company to the ef
II ft
Atwood, Classen
nd Shartei
ackey s office dur
make demand fur
They left without
fect that there had been violence. The
resolution, which also demanded im-
mediate arbitration. was Introduced
by Councilman Ruth ami carried unan-
imously.
Weston
called at
ing the council
police protection
seeing Cs key.
Members of thf newly formed ear
nen's union Tuesday sent the follow-
ng letter to Anton H. Classen, presi-
ptnt of the Oklahoma Railway • :
"Several years ago your employes
tttempted to form an organisation in
•rder to present their grievances in
proper form and without being dis-
harged for doing so. At thai time
about 25 men were discharged and the
>ung organization destroyed.
Again, about nin • months ago, an-
other effort was made bv your em
• loves tt form an organization. As
"•fore, the officers of your company
ailed the men into the office and
threatened them with immediate dis-
hunt- unless they taVe up the idea
'f forming an organixaion.
"During the last few weeks your
mployes have again formed an organ-
ization. As upon the former occasion,
,v has again discharged
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO
ALASKA--JAHAMAr-liAN ADA
United States May Lose Gold
Country" According- to Re-
ports from Northern Places
'"TAW A. Ont., Mar. 7.— Far trom be-
in*; annexed, Canada appears about to
be forced to go into iIih annexing busi-
ness lier^eif. T. B. Macau lay. manas- |
hie director of the Sun Life Assurance)
Society, returning to Montreal from a
trip to the West Indies, says the cltl-
'/ens of the Bahamas are anxious to be
taken under Canada's wing. A dispatch
fiorn < orJova, states that a movement
has been started to hold mass meetings
Valde
and Fa
LE.oka:RJD .
BOSTON, Mass., March 7.—District
Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier says that
h- has determined to make a complete
Investigation of the past life of Miss
Amelia J. Leonard, a nurse, who is
being held under JlU.t'OO bonds for the
theft of $6,162.60 from Miss Mary .1
Loekwood. an aged patient of hers.
who died at the Hotel Brunswick on
February 14.
It is Intimated by persons connected
with the District Attorney's office
that the bodies of some of the patients
of Miss Leonard who died while under
her care may be exhumed before the
meeting of the Grand Jury early this
month.
banks to aviopt resolutions asking Con*
re«« to permit Alaska to annex itself
> Canada.
Mr. Maeulay says that, a meeting was
hel.j in the Bahamas on February 2ft anil
ihat "workmen dropped their tools m
the streets to talk over the question-
joining the Dominion. Among the
speakers were Mr. MacDonald, mayor
"t Rigaud Qi:e5>ee; Mr. Nicholson, of
Winnipeg, and Judge Mclntyre, of Whit-
by. Ontario. Ho says that a committee
consisting of a dozen members of the
Bahamas Legislature was named to re-
port on the question and approach Can-
Ma a Montreal despatch says:—
The Governor ot the Bahamas. Sir
William Grey-Wilson, is anticipating a
ifcit from Marl Giey, his cousin, next
• inter, a fact which seems to Indicato
w hieh way the wind is blowing."
Ka l Grey will then have retired as
Governor Generul of Canada.
I than that for mo. He turned
I of happiness into one of sorrc
According to the girl, who is twenty-
two years old. Orsini became her suit-
or two years ago. She was working
in a 3ilk waist factory, supporting her-
self and mother, and was having a
hard time to provide food. The young
man repeatedly offered ti. marry h<.
she said, and take care of her moth-
er. but the young woman refused to
do this because her brothers were not
old enough to tare for themselves
}*nd the mother. The girl would not
let (irsini bear the additional burden
of her mother's support.
Prepares for Wedding
l^ast September the young Abag
niales obtained jobs which enabled
them to support the family, and th
daughter at last consented to marry
Orsini For a long time she had been
preparing for the wedding. buying
little bits of finery as she saved inon-
■•noiigh :ind denying herself much
■rder to be prepared to stand the
expenses of ihe ceremon.v
The world looked bright and the
girl's happiness grew. She talked
pri to her friends of the wedding
> was going to have, what she
would wear and how she had saved
enough out of her earnings to pay for
it all by herself. With Orsini she
looked at many apartments where
thej might live and at last the
lected one at No 356 Fast Twelfth
street. I hen it came time to make
arrangements for the wedding.
When tin- young woman unfolded her
plans and her dreams to Orsini hp
east th. first cloud over her happi-
ness hy refusing to have a large
wedding He was not well, he said
and would he unable to undergo the
strain A brother had recently died
and he did not want a public wedding
of rr-spect for him
ie girl was bitterly disapp Inted,
but she wanted above all to please
'•nl. and she consented to do as he
hed on November 16. 1a?t. she
{says he took her to city hall and
obtained a license. Show;ng it to her,
h« told her that they were married,
she rav« she was uncertain about
i' but the man's-firm assurances that
th« \ were legally man and wife con-
vinced her. and she says that they
went to the apartments which the-
had engaged and furnished, :• Ing
their friends that they were marri-d
and showing the INense to some of
work in the waist factory, to lead the
old colorless life, only worse, now, be-
cause the happiness she had known
was annihilated. Then on December i
IS last. Orsini was married to Miss
Luist \ allardi, just one mont.i after
Maria Abagniale herself thought she
wa;: married to him, living in the homo'
she had helped to make.
Somewhere °he gnt a revolver and
wait'.| for Orsini at Firn/ avenue and
Twelfth street. When lie passed by
on his way home sh > walked cooly up
to him arid fired four times. One bul-
let entered th- right arm and he start-
°d to run The g-irl fired again and
shot him In the back. He turned
partly and another bullet entered Ills
forehead. As he fell the girl shot him
once more in the right shoulder. Then,
carrying the revolver, she ran to her
room, the crowd which collected scat-
tering before her.
he whs taken to Bellevue hospital
where Orsini was lying on a cot while
surgeons were preparing to operate
on him. He was conscious and when
tlid police a«kfd him If the girl shot
him he said, "No. Why should she
shoot me?"
'You lie," Knapped the etrl "! did
:>ot you, Hud r hope that you will
| them.
Quarrelling Begins
Little quarrels and actions on th#
part of Orsini began to trouble th*3
supposed bride. Day by day the hap-
piness was crushed out of her life,
until at last Orsini entered their home
one night and said that he was go'ng
to be renlly married, that he had never
been wedded to her at all. The girl
thought at first that it was a erne!
joke ''nd tried to laugh at it, but the
man was serious and showed her an-
other license with another woman's
name on It She begged and pleaded
with h<m. but he convinced her that
what he said was true, and she Wt
him to go home to her mother, she
told the police.
In a few days she went back to.
"''ome
' the v,
here
id
i irsini
ii n
ind
slu
not
. he repeated: "Come here
Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you "
The policemen cautioned the girl
against going near tlv man. Win n
repeatedlv refused to go near him
said
All right:
ind
'ill
this
my revenge
WASHINGTON, Mar. 7.—The navy
and marine corps are co-operating
with the army in the southward move-
ment. The ships of the Pacific fleet
are being concentrated at San Diego
and San Pedro, Calif., for the osten-
sible purpose of co-operating with the
army in maneuvers on the southwest-
ern coast.
The four armored cruisers of the
fifth division of the Atlantic fleet; the
Tennessee, Montana, North Carolina
and Washington will leave New Vor'«
In a few days under orders which have
been issued by the navy department.
These ships are scheduled to go di-
rectly to the United States navat sta-
tion at Quantanamo. Cuba, which In
being made tlie base of naval opera-
tions
About 2,ft00 marines have alto been
ordered to assemble at Guantansmo.
Of this number, 1.400 are being drawn
from the marine barracks along the
Atlantic coast, and the remaining six
hundred will be taken from the bat
tleship fleet and landed before tne
fleet leaves Cuban waters
On Thursday th< 1'nited States ship
Prairie will leave Philadelphia with
700 marines which ale being collected
from the eastern posts. The Dixie
will carry a like number and will leave
Philadelphia on Friday, stopping
Norfolk t« pick up
the barracks there
The :!,nou marines at Gusntc.
will consist of two regiments under
the command of colonel f w. T Wall-
er. the senior colonel of the marine
• present in command of the.
barracks at Norfolk. Va.
Thousands ot Marines
irst regiment of the detach-
ill be in eharge of Colonel
Harnett, now •■ommanding the
barracks at Philadelphia, while
nd reg*ment w ill he commanded
n. I Franklin J Moses, the
detachment from
corps.
mmm of
MEN TO FKUNT
Uncle Sam Sends Every Avail-
able Soldier to Boundary
of Mexico
MAY INVADE MEXICO
Property of Americans Will
Protected While Dia^ En-
deavors to Quell Rebellioi
Which is Growing Serious
WASHINGTON, March 7—Every
available soldier of the United State#
army is tonight under arms rushing
on special trains to the Mexican
border a making hurried arrangements
to board trains now waiting at the var-
ious army posts.
Troops now enroute and under or-
ders are:—Under General A. L. Mills,
commanding the department of th®
gulf.
Fort Mcpherson. Ga., Seventeenth
infantry.
Fort Oglethrope, Ga„ Eleventh cav-
airy.
Atlanta. Ga., Provisional reaiment
coast artillery.
Pres'do, Cal Thirteenth infantry.
Monterey, Cal., E.ghth infantry
Salt Lake, Utah, Fifteenth infan.
try.
Ft. Meyer,, Va . Three battene, fhd
artillery.
It is thought probable here that al- I
though the troops are ordered to tha
border s.mply to guard the boundary,
that they will ultimately advance into
Mexico to protect the vast mining in-
terest of citizens of the United States.
1 I ■ movement of troops will Inkn
■ ritlre rtiviainii of (hp I'nlted States
.'"•my ... T- «KS and nlnngr the Mexican
ivl,hln IV.. (lays the result
the orders Kiv..n by win rrmn ■
\\ ashtnirton within the ,iast twenty- 'I
f"ur hours. I
[n nsnd of a foroe approximate,; I
or mor than .. quarta^ I
entire army ..f the fniteit [
Sl 'J'. ' wl11 M"i"xr>erai W Mltaiq |
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
A SYMPATHETIC
JURY VERDICT
off"
SOUTH DAKOTA WON
LOS ANOI.SLF:s, Calif., Mar 7 The
annual cutter race between the crews j
of the 1'nited States cruifors South '
Dakota and California* was woH atl
San Pedro by the South Dakota boat
by h margin of seven seconds. There
were twelve oarsmen in each boat and
the course was three miles I Mm
Wasrors ..n the race anvynted t i n- i
ly Jin.ooo
at Annapr
rlers to th<
"f the marine
7^135
HEKTilCTTA
the whole pr
arried out
ooedure in
TROUBLE IN PORTUGAL
IGO, Spain, Mar. 7.— A newspaper
e says the people of Arcos De Yal-
Dovea, in the north <>f Portugal,
recently revolted against repuoncun
rule. They drove the authorities out
of town and hoisted the royal flat? in
place of that of the republic. Troops,
the paper adds, were despatched from
3porto. They restored order and re
■stablished the authorities Confirm
ation of this report is lacking.
MACHINE WRECKED
EAXJLK PASS, Texas, Mar. 7.— The
biplan* which fell
Grande yesterday
. Foulois and Phil
ay hauled into Eag
The machine was injured too badly
i be repaired here, so it was shipped
San Antonio
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BiGAMiSI UivUiiiiti) Biii
Felix Ogilvie, Adventurer and |
Swindier, Sentenced at the Old j
Bailey, in London
London' ins Mai. t. ; <-ix e
Lieutenant B.
nalee was to-
FED CHAMP CLARK
PHTLA DELPHI A, Mar 7. — Con-
greaman t'hanip t'lark of IVflsaourl,
uas tendered an informal dinner here
tonight by democrats who hav« been
active in the reorganization plans for
the party in this city and ftat^. \*
apeechag were made as th<> ron^repj.
man wns obliged to depart early t
deliver a lecture
OKLAHOMA FORECAST.
FOR GUTHRIE AND VICINITY
Generally fair weather Wednesday.
FOR OKLAHOMA — Wednesday
generally fair weather.
San Fraiwisco In 1905. when ho wedded d
wealthy widow, whose nam.' wan with-
held. The judge said that the prisoner,
who had lived at ti.e Ritz and Claride'a,
in London, and hotels of a like charac-
ter in the other Kuropean capitals, had
a career unequalled outside of the to-
manoes of the elder Dumas.
He served in three British regiments,
including the Bla<-k Watch, from which
he deserted. In the United Slates he
stole money from the canton of a cavai-
r -11• . ' ■ • *
pastime, accord ins to his own
es-don was wedding, drug-
hrides, robbing; them and spend*
">ot in riotous living at the gay
resorts of London and on the Conti-
nent.
swindled all over Europe and North
ami South America. The man speaks
several languages fluently.
MOW YOR
Kalianger in
Decker,
gineer,
that the
monetary
breach o
M . zdbzctix: J*? , .
K Marc) Z |
the supreme court
'I
\! aa H< nrietfa I Yench
D.. against David H.
New York a civil en-
\.«. Miss French suet
ging breach of promise
verdict," th(
d entirely o
•n shown her
put
i -sympatheti
"and is ha
It has not b
plaintiff
expend
bin
She did
of the
tot clali
bought a trousseau or
IV ntone.t as a result of th«
romiae to marr>*.
was no proof that any
persons in her home towr
ngngemen 4
was broken off."
.' .Hi... : I H re J
•t's mm the Question of re-J
ducing tho verui.L
pendet
ir that
Justice
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